Java_J2EE_Job_Interview_Companion

350	RESOURCES

RESOURCES

Articles

Sun Java Certified Enterprise Architect by Leo Crawford on http://www.leocrawford.org.uk/work/jcea/part1/index.html.

Practical UML: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers by Randy Miller on http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31863,00.html

W3 Schools on http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp.

LDAP basics on http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzahy/rzahyovrco.htm.

Java World articles on design patterns: http://www.javaworld.com/columns/jw-Java-design-patterns-index.shtml.

Web Servers vs. App Servers: Choosing Between the Two By Nelson King on http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1355131.

Follow the Chain of Responsibility by David Geary on Java World - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0829- designpatterns.html.

J2EE Design Patterns by Sue Spielman on http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/01/16/patterns.html.

The New Methodology by Martin Fowler on http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html.

Merlin brings nonblocking I/O to the Java platform by Aruna Kalagnanam and Balu G on http://www.ibm.com//developerworks/Java/library/j-javaio.

Hibernate Tips and Pitfalls by Phil Zoio on http://www.realsolve.co.uk/site/tech/hib-tip-pitfall-series.php.

Hibernate Reference Documentation on http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html_single/.

Object-relation mapping without the container by Richard Hightower on http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j- hibern/?ca=dnt515.

Object to Relational Mapping and Relationships with Hibernate by Mark Eagle on http://www.meagle.com:8080/hibernate.jsp.

Mapping Objects to Relational databases: O/R Mapping In detail by Scott W. Ambler on http://www.agiledata.org/essays/mappingObjects.html.

I want my AOP by Ramnivas Laddad on Java World.

WebSphere Application Server 5.0 for iSeries – Performance Considerations by Jill Peterson.

Dependency Injection using pico container by Subbu Ramanathan .

WebSphere Application Server & Database Performance tuning by Michael S. Pallos on http://www.bizforum.org/whitepapers/candle-5.htm.

A beginners guide to Dependency Injection by Dhananjay Nene on http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=IoCBeginners.

The Spring series: Introduction to the Spring framework by Naveen Balani on http://www- 128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-spring1.

The Spring Framework by Benoy Jose.

Inversion of Control Containersband the Dependency Injection pattern by Martin Fowler.

Migrate J2EE Applications for EJB 3.0 by Debu Panda on JavaPro.

EJB 3.0 in a nutshell by Anil Sharma on JavaWorld.

Preparing for EJB 3.0 by Mike Keith on ORACLE Technology Network.

Simplify enterprise Java development with EJB 3.0 by Michael Juntao Yuan on JavaWorld.

J2SE: New I/O by John Zukowski on http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/nio/.

High-Performance I/O arrives by Danniel F. Savarese on JavaPro.

Hibernate – Proxy Visitor Pattern by Kurtis Williams.

Best Practices for Exception Handling by Gunjan Doshi.

Three Rules for Effective Exception Handling by Jim Cushing.

LDAP and JNDI: Together forever – by Sameer Tyagi.

Introduction To LDAP – by Brad Marshall.

Java theory and practice: Decorating with dynamic proxies by Brian Goetz.

Java Dynamic Proxies: One Step from Aspect-Oriented Programming by Lara D’Abreo.

Java Design Patterns on http://www.allapplabs.com/java_design_patterns .

Software Design Patterns on http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx .

JRun: Core Dump and Dr. Watson Errors on http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_17534

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing by Joel Spolsky at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/fog0000000073.html

The Riddle of Job Interviews by Kate Kane at http://www.fastcompany.com/online/01/jobint_Printer_Fiendly.html

An Introduction to Aspect-Oiented Programming with the Spring Framework, Part 1 by Russell Miles at http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/4994

5 Habits Of Best Software Developers by Angusman Chakraborty at http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-habits-of-best- doftware-developers/

Getting started with Hibernate by Alan P Saxton at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~aps/syllabi/2004_2005/issws/h03/hibernate.html

Hibernate Tips by Jason Carreira at http://jroller.com/page/jcarreira/20050223

Five Things I Love About Spring by Bruce A. Tate at http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/5833

Service-oriented modeling and architecture by Ali Arsanjani , Ph.D at http://www- 128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-design1/

Delving into Service-Oriented Architecture by Bernhad Borges, Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani at http://www.developer.com/design/print.php/10925_3409221_1

SOA: Are We Reinventing the Wheel? By Nick Simha at http://dev2dev.bea.com/lpt/a/435

Getting a little closer to SOA by Fabrice Marguerie at http://madgeek.com/Articles/SOA/EN/SOA-Softly.html

What is sevice-oriented architecture by Raghu R. Kodali at http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2005/jw-0613-soa_p.html

RESOURCES

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J2EE-Supported Web Service standards and Technologies by Vijay Ramachandran, Sean Brydon, Greg Murray. Inderjeet Singh, Beth Stearns, Thierry Violleau.

J2EE 1.4 eases Web service development by Frank Sommers at http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0620- webservices_p.html

A developer’s introduction to JAX-RPC, Part 1 & 2 by Joshy Joseph at http://www128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/

Developing Web Services with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 Platform by Qusay H. Mahmoud at http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/j2ee_ws/

Scriptless JSP Pages: The Front Man by Bear Bibeault at http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200603/Journal200603.jsp

Advanced DAO programming by Sean Sullivan at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-dao/

Understanding JavaServer Pages Model 2 architecture by Govind Seshadri at http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1999/jw- 12-ssj-jspmvc_p.html

A Fast Introduction to Basic Servlet Programming by Marty Hall at http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp/p=29817&r1=1

What’s new in J2Se 5.0? based on Joshua Bloch’s on-line talk.

Introducing Java 5 by Andy Grant at http://www.sitepoint.com/print/introducing-java-5

Experiences with the New Java 5 Language Features by Jess Garms and Tim Hanson at http://dev2dev.bea.com/lpt/a/442

Five Favorite Features from 5.0 by David Flanagan at http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/5799

First among equals by Kevlin Henney at http://www.regdeveloper.com/2005/12/29/first_among_equals/print.html

Painting in AWT and Swing by Amy Fowler.

A Hands-On Introduction for Developers by Randy Miller at http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31863,00.html

www.javaworld.com articles.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java articles.

http://www.devx.com/java articles.

www.theserverside.com/tss articles.

http://javaboutique.internet.com/articles articles.

Books

Beginning Java 2 by Ivor Horton.

Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides (GoF) .

UML Distilled by Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott .

Mastering Enterprise Java Beans II by Ed Roman, Scott Ambler, Tyler Jewell, Floyd Marinescu.

EJB Design Patterns by Floyd Marinescu .

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology Study Guide by Mark Cade and Simon Roberts.

Professional Java Server Programming - J2EE edition by Wrox publication.

Design Patterns Java Companion by James W. Cooper (Free download: http://www.patterndepot.com/put/8/JavaPatterns.htm).

Test Driven Development – By Example, by Kent Beck.

Effective Java – programming language guide by Joshua Bloch

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Emerging Technologies/Frameworks

Briefly explain key features of the JavaServer Faces (JSF)

framework?	339
Explain Object-to-Relational (O/R) mapping?	323
Explain some of the pitfalls of Hibernate and explain how to
avoid them?	333
Give an overview of hibernate framework?	324
Give an overview of the Spring framework?	334
How would EJB 3.0 simplify your Java development
compared to EJB 1.x, 2.x?	337
How would the JSF framework compare with the Struts
framework?	341
What are the benefits of IoC (aka Dependency Injection)?
	322
What are the differences between OOP and AOP?	317
What are the different types of dependency injections? 321
What are the pros and cons of annotations over XML based
deployment descriptors?	318
What is aspect oriented programming? Explain AOP?	313
What is attribute or annotation oriented programming? 317
What is inversion of control (IoC) (also known as
dependency injection)?	319
What is Test Driven Development (TDD)?	312
What is the difference between a service locator pattern
and an inversion of control pattern?	323
What is the point of Test Driven Development (TDD)? 313
What is XDoclet?	319
Why dependency injection is more elegant than a JNDI
lookup to decouple client and the service?	323
Enterprise - Best practices and performance
considerations
Explain some of the J2EE best practices to improve
performance?	223
Explain some of the J2EE best practices?	222
Give some tips on J2EE application server performance
tuning?	222

Enterprise - EJB 2.x

Can an EJB client invoke a method on a bean directly? 168

Discuss EJB container security?	174
Explain EJB architecture?	165
Explain exception handling in EJB?	172
Explain lazy loading and dirty marker strategies?	179
How can we determine if the data is stale (for example
when using optimistic locking)?	174
How do you rollback a container managed transaction in
EJB?	173
How to design transactional conversations with session
beans?	172
What are EJB best practices?	176
What are isolation levels?	170
What are not allowed within the EJB container?	174
What are the implicit services provided by an EJB
container?	170
What are transactional attributes?	170
What is a business delegate? Why should you use a
business delegate?	176
What is a distributed transaction? What is a 2-phase
commit?	171
What is a fast-lane reader?	178
What is a Service Locator?	178
What is a session façade?	177
What is a value object pattern?	177
What is dooming a transaction?	171

What is the difference between Container Managed
Persistence (CMP) and Bean Managed Persistence
(BMP)?	168

What is the difference between EJB 1.1 and EJB 2.0? What

is the difference between EJB 2.x and EJB 3.0?

169

What is the difference between EJB and JavaBeans? 164 What is the difference between optimistic and pessimistic

concurrency control?

173

What is the difference between session and entity beans?

What is the difference between stateful and stateless	168
session beans?	168
What is the role of EJB 2.x in J2EE?	163
Enterprise - J2EE
Explain J2EE class loaders?	105
Explain MVC architecture relating to J2EE?	99
Explain the J2EE 3-tier or n-tier architecture?	97
So what is the difference between a component and a
service you may ask?	96

What are ear, war and jar files? What are J2EE Deployment

Descriptors?

101

What is J2EE? What are J2EE components and services?

What is the difference between a Web server and an	95
application server?	101
Why use design patterns in a J2EE application?	101
Enterprise - JDBC
Explain differences among java.util.Date, java.sql.Date,
java.sql.Time, and java.sql.Timestamp?	153
How to avoid the “running out of cursors” problem?	152
What are JDBC Statements? What are different types of
statements? How can you create them?	147
What is a Transaction? What does setAutoCommit do? 147
What is JDBC? How do you connect to a database?	145

What is the difference between JDBC-1.0 and JDBC-2.0? What are Scrollable ResultSets, Updateable ResultSets,

RowSets, and Batch updates?	152
What is the difference between statements and prepared
statements?	153

Enterprise - JMS

Discuss some of the design decisions you need to make

regarding your message delivery?	186
Give an example of a J2EE application using Message
Driven Bean with JMS?	189
How JMS is different from RPC?	180

What are some of the key message characteristics defined

in a message header?	184
What is Message Oriented Middleware? What is JMS? 180
What type of messaging is provided by JMS?	185
Enterprise - JNDI & LDAP
Explain the difference between the look up of “java
comp/env/ejb/MyBean” and “ejb/MyBean”?	156
Explain the RMI architecture?	159
How will you pass parameters in RMI?	161
What are the differences between RMI and a socket? 161
What are the services provided by the RMI Object?	161
What is a JNDI InitialContext?	156
What is a remote object? Why should we extend
UnicastRemoteObject?	160
What is an LDAP server? And what is it used for in an
enterprise environment?	156
What is HTTP tunnelling or how do you make RMI calls
across firewalls?	161

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What is JNDI? And what are the typical uses within a J2EE

application?	155
What is the difference between RMI and CORBA?	161
Why use LDAP when you can do the same with relational
database (RDBMS)?	157
Enterprise - JSP
Explain hidden and output comments?	139
Explain the life cycle methods of a JSP?	133
How will you avoid scriptlet code in JSP?	144
Is JSP variable declaration thread safe?	139
Tell me about JSP best practices?	143
What are custom tags? Explain how to build custom tags?
	140
What are implicit objects and list them?	137
What are the differences between static and a dynamic
include?	137
What are the different scope values or what are the
different scope values for <jsp
usebean> ?	137
What are the main elements of JSP? What are scriplets?
What are expressions?	134
What is a JSP? What is it used for? What do you
understand by the term JSP translation phase or
compilation phase?	126
What is a TagExtraInfo class?	142
What is the difference between custom JSP tags and
Javabeans?	142
Enterprise - Logging, testing and deployment
Enterprise - Logging, testing and deployment	226
Give an overview of log4J?	225
How do you initialize and use Log4J?	225
What is the hidden cost of parameter construction when
using Log4J?	225
What is the test phases and cycles?	226
Enterprise - Personal
Have you used any load testing tools?	228
Tell me about yourself or about some of the recent projects
you have worked with? What do you consider your most
significant achievement? Why do you think you are
qualified for this position? Why should we hire you and
what kind of contributions will you make?	228
What operating systems are you comfortable with? 228, 229
What source control systems have you used?	228
Which on-line technical resources do you use to resolve
any design and/or development issues?	229
Enterprise - RUP & UML
Explain the 4 phases of RUP?	206
What are the characteristics of RUP? Where can you use
RUP?	208
What are the different types of UML diagrams?	208
What is RUP?	206
What is the difference between a collaboration diagram and
a sequence diagram?	213
What is the difference between aggregation and
composition?	213
When to use ‘use case’ diagrams?	209
When to use activity diagrams?	213
When to use class diagrams?	209
When to use interaction diagrams?	211
When to use object diagrams?	210
When to use package diagrams?	210
When to use statechart diagram?	212
Why is UML important?	208

Enterprise - Servlet

Briefly discuss the following patterns Composite view, View

helper, Dispatcher view and Service to worker? Or
explain J2EE design patterns?	123
Explain declarative security for Web applications?	122
Explain Servlet URL mapping?	125
Explain the directory structure of a Web application?	114

Explain the Front Controller design pattern or explain J2EE

design patterns?	122
Explain the life cycle methods of a servlet?	113

How do you get your servlet to stop timing out on a really

long database query?	118
How do you make a Servlet thread safe? What do you need
to be concerned about with storing data in Servlet
instance fields?	117
How would you get the browser to request for an updated
page in 10 seconds?	109
HTTP is a stateless protocol, so, how do you maintain
state? How do you store user data between requests?
If an object is stored in a session and subsequently you	110
change the state of the object, will this state change
replicated to all the other distributed sessions in the
cluster?	121
What are the considerations for servlet clustering?	120
What are the different scopes or places where a servlet can
save data for its processing?	110
What are the ServletContext and ServletConfig objects?
What are Servlet environment objects?	115
What are the two objects a servlet receives when it accepts
a call from its client?	109
What can you do in your Servlet/JSP code to tell browser
not to cache the pages?	109
What is a filter, and how does it work?	121
What is a RequestDispatcher? What object do you use to
forward a request?	119
What is pre-initialization of a Servlet?	119
What is the difference between CGI and Servlet?	108
What is the difference between doGet () and doPost () or
GET and POST?	115
What is the difference between forwarding a request and
redirecting a request?	119
What is the difference between HttpServlet and
GenericServlet?	116
What is the difference between request parameters and
request attributes?	109
Which code line should be set in a response object before
using the PrintWriter or the OutputStream?	110

Enterprise - Software development process

What software development processes/principles are you

familiar with?	230
Enterprise - SQL, Tuning and O/R mapping
Explain a sub-query? How does a sub-query impact on
performance?	198
Explain inner and outer joins?	197
How can you performance tune your database?	199
How do you implement one-to-one, one-to-many and many-
to-many relationships while designing tables?	199
How do you map inheritance class structure to relational
data model?	201
How will you map objects to a relational database? How will
you map class inheritance to relational data model? 200
What is a view? Why will you use a view? What is an
aggregate function?	201
What is normalization? When to denormalize?	199
Enterprise - Struts
Are Struts action classes thread-safe?	216
Give an overview of Struts?	214
How do you implement internationalization in Struts?	216
How do you upload a file in Struts?	216
What design patterns are used in Struts?	217
What is a synchronizer token pattern in Struts or how will
you protect your Web against multiple submissions? 215
What is an action mapping in Struts? How will you extend
Struts?	217
Enterprise - Web and Application servers
Explain Java Management Extensions (JMX)?	219
What application servers, Web servers, LDAP servers, and
Database servers have you used?	218
What is a virtual host?	218
What is application server clustering?	219
What is the difference between a Web server and an
application server?	218

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Enterprise - Web and Applications servers
Explain some of the portability issues between different
application servers?	220
Enterprise - XML
Explain where your project needed XML documents?	196
How do you write comments in an XML document?	195
What is a CDATA section in an XML?	194
What is a namespace in an XML document?	195
What is a valid XML document?	195
What is a version information in XML?	194
What is a well-formed XML document?	195
What is the difference between a SAX parser and a DOM
parser?	190
What is XML? And why is XML important?	190
What is XPATH? What is XSLT/XSL/XSL-FO/XSD/DTD
etc? What is JAXB? What is JAXP?	191
What is your favorite XML framework or a tool?	196
Which is better to store data as elements or as attributes?
	191
Why use an XML document as opposed to other types of
documents like a text file etc?	196

How would you go about...?

How would you go about applying the design patterns in

your Java/J2EE application?

253

How would you go about applying the Object Oriented (OO)

design concepts in your Java/J2EE application?	247
How would you go about applying the UML diagrams in
your Java/J2EE project?	249
How would you go about describing the open source

projects like JUnit (unit testing), Ant (build tool), CVS (version control system) and log4J (logging tool) which

are integral part of most Java/J2EE projects?	292
How would you go about describing the software
development processes you are familiar with?	251

How would you go about describing Web services? 3, 299

How would you go about designing a Java/J2EE
application?	240
How would you go about designing a Web application

where the business tier is on a separate machine from the presentation tier. The business tier should talk to 2 different databases and your design should point out the

different design patterns?	286
How would you go about determining the enterprise
security requirements for yor Java/J2EE application?287
How would you go about documenting your Java/J2EE
application?	239
How would you go about identifying any potential thread-
safety issues in your Java/J2EE application?	245

How would you go about identifying any potential transactional issues in your Java/J2EE application? 246

How would you go about identifying performance and/or
memory issues in your Java/J2EE application?	243
How would you go about improving performance in your
Java/J2EE application?	244

How would you go about minimizing memory leaks in your

Java/J2EE application?	244
Java
Briefly explain high-level thread states?	58
Discuss the Java error handling mechanism? What is the
difference between Runtime (unchecked) exceptions
and checked exceptions? What is the implication of
catching all the exceptions with the type “Exception”? 53
Explain different ways of creating a thread?	57
Explain Java class loaders? Explain dynamic class loading?
Explain Outer and Inner classes (or Nested classes) in	15
Java? When will you use an Inner Class?	49
Explain some of the new features in J2SE 5.0, which
improves ease of development	65
Explain static vs dynamic class loading?	16
Explain the assertion construct?	24
Explain the Java Collections Framework?	26

Explain the Java I/O streaming concept and the use of the

decorator design pattern in Java I/O?	42
Explain threads blocking on I/O?	61
Give a few reasons for using Java?	14

Give an example where you might use a static method? 46 How can threads communicate with each other? How would you implement a producer (one thread) and a consumer

(another thread) passing data (via stack)?	59
How can you improve Java I/O performance?	44
How do you express an ‘is a’ relationship and a ‘has a’
relationship or explain inheritance and composition?
What is the difference between composition and
aggregation?	18

How does Java allocate stack and heap memory? Explain

re-entrant, recursive and idempotent
methods/functions?	48

How does the Object Oriented approach improve software

development?

18

How does thread synchronization occurs inside a monitor? What levels of synchronization can you apply? What is the difference between synchronized method and

synchronized block?	58
How will you call a Web server from a stand alone Java
application?	64

If 2 different threads hit 2 different synchronized methods in an object at the same time will they both continue? 61

If you have a circular reference of objects, but you no longer reference it from an execution thread, will this object be a potential candidate for garbage collection?

53 What are “static initializers” or “static blocks with no function

names”?	17
What are access modifiers?	46
What are some of the best practices relating to Java
collection?	30

What are the advantages of Object Oriented Programming

Languages (OOPL)?

18

What are the benefits of the Java Collections Framework?

	29
What are the flow control statements in Java	55

What are the non-final methods in Java Object class, which

are meant primarily for extension?	34
What are the usages of Java packages?	15

What do you know about the Java garbage collector? When

does the garbage collection occur? Explain different
types of references in Java?	51
What do you mean by polymorphism, inheritance,
encapsulation, and dynamic binding?	19
What is a daemon thread?	59
What is a factory pattern?	62
What is a final modifier? Explain other Java modifiers?	46

What is a singleton pattern? How do you code it in Java? 61

What is a socket? How do you facilitate inter process
communication in Java?	64
What is a user defined exception?	55
What is design by contract? Explain the assertion
construct?	22
What is serialization? How would you exclude a field of a
class from serialization or what is a transient variable?
What is the common use?	41
What is the difference between “==” and equals(…)
method? What is the difference between shallow
comparison and deep comparison of objects?	33
What is the difference between aggregation and
composition?	19
What is the difference between an abstract class and an
interface and when should you use them?	24

What is the difference between an instance variable and a static variable? Give an example where you might use a

static variable?	46
What is the difference between C++ and Java?	14

What is the difference between constructors and other regular methods? What happens if you do not provide a

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constructor? Can you call one constructor from another?

How do you call the superclass’ constructor?

17

What is the difference between final, finally and finalize() in

Java?

47

What is the difference between processes and threads? 56

What is the difference between yield and sleeping?	58
What is the main difference between a String and a
StringBuffer class?	38

What is the main difference between an ArrayList and a Vector? What is the main difference between HashMap

and Hashtable?

25

What is the main difference between pass-by-reference and

pass-by-value?	40
What is the main difference between shallow cloning and
deep cloning of objects?	45

What is the main difference between the Java platform and

the other software platforms?

14

What is type casting? Explain up casting vs down casting?

When do you get ClassCastException?	50
When is a method said to be overloaded and when is a
method said to be overridden?	25

When providing a user defined key class for storing objects in the HashMaps or Hashtables, what methods do you have to provide or override (i.e. method overriding)? 36

When should you use a checked exception and when
should you use an unchecked exception	55
When to use an abstract class?	25
When to use an interface?	25
Where and how can you use a private constructor?	46
Why is it not advisable to catch type “Exception”?	54
Why should you catch a checked exception late in a catch
{} block?	55
Why should you throw an exception early?	54
Why there are some interfaces with no defined methods
(i.e. marker interfaces) in Java?	25
Why would you prefer a short circuit “&&, ||” operators over
logical “& , |” operators	47
Java - Applet
How will you communicate between two Applets?	76
How will you initialize an applet?	76
How would you communicate between applets and
servlets?	76
What is a signed Applet?	76
What is the difference between an applet and an
application?	77
What is the order of method invocation in an applet?	76
Java - Performance and Memory issues

How would you detect and minimize memory leaks in Java? 81

How would you improve performance of a Java application? 78 Why does the JVM crash with a core dump or a Dr.Watson

error?	81
Java - Personal
Did you have to use any design patterns in your Java
project?	83
Do you have any role models in software development? 88
How do you handle pressure? Do you like or dislike these
situations?	85
Java – Behaving right in an interview	89

Tell me about yourself or about some of the recent projects you have worked with? What do you consider your most significant achievement? Why do you think you are qualified for this position? Why should we hire you and

what kind of contributions will you make?	83
What are your career goals? Where do you see yourself in
5-10 years?	85
What do you like and/or dislike most about your current
and/or last position?	84
What past accomplishments gave you satisfaction? What
makes you want to work hard?	88
What was the last Java related book or article you read? 87
Which Java related website(s) or resource(s) do you use to
keep your knowledge up to date beyond Google	88
Why are you leaving your current position?	84
Why do you want to work for us?	88
Java - Swing
Explain layout managers?	74
Explain the Swing Action architecture?	70
Explain the Swing delegation event model?	75
Explain the Swing event dispatcher mechanism?	73
How does Swing painting happen? How will you improve
the painting performance?	70
How will you go about building a Swing GUI client	69
If you add a component to the CENTER of a border layout,
which directions will the component stretch?	72
What do you understand by MVC as used in a JTable? 74
What is the base class for all Swing components?	72
What is the difference between AWT and Swing?	69

Java/J2EE - Personal

What are your strengths and weaknesses? Can you describe a situation where you took initiative? Can you describe a situation where you applied your problem

solving skills?	85
Key Points
Enterprise - Key Points	233
Java - Key Points	91

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